The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc., and Adam; a Sacred Drama; from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini, with a Memoir of the Author, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1856 |
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... acquaintance as I find in Mrs. Un- win . How happy it is to believe with a steadfas assurance that our petitions are heard , even while we are making them . " His acquaintance with this amiable woman and her family was WILLIAM COWPER . 13.
... acquaintance as I find in Mrs. Un- win . How happy it is to believe with a steadfas assurance that our petitions are heard , even while we are making them . " His acquaintance with this amiable woman and her family was WILLIAM COWPER . 13.
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... heard amid the singing of birds , the sighing of the lover's lute , and the mystic voices of a thousand attendant ministers of delight . Thus they were worshipped because they gave new beauty to the world by the light they breathed upon ...
... heard amid the singing of birds , the sighing of the lover's lute , and the mystic voices of a thousand attendant ministers of delight . Thus they were worshipped because they gave new beauty to the world by the light they breathed upon ...
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... heard , And in his cage , like parrot fine and gay , Is kept to strut , look big , and talk away . Born in a climate softer far than our Not form'd like us , with such Herculean powers , The Frenchman , easy , debonair , and brisk ...
... heard , And in his cage , like parrot fine and gay , Is kept to strut , look big , and talk away . Born in a climate softer far than our Not form'd like us , with such Herculean powers , The Frenchman , easy , debonair , and brisk ...
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... heard again : Liberty taught him her Athenian strain ; She cloth'd him with authority and awe , Spoke from his lips , and in his looks gave law . His speech , his form , his action , full of grace , And all his country beaming in his ...
... heard again : Liberty taught him her Athenian strain ; She cloth'd him with authority and awe , Spoke from his lips , and in his looks gave law . His speech , his form , his action , full of grace , And all his country beaming in his ...
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... heard : To carry Nature lengths unknown before , To give a Milton birth , ask'd ages more . Thus Genius rose and set at order'd times , And shot a dayspring into distant climes , Ennobling every region that he chose ; He sunk in Greece ...
... heard : To carry Nature lengths unknown before , To give a Milton birth , ask'd ages more . Thus Genius rose and set at order'd times , And shot a dayspring into distant climes , Ennobling every region that he chose ; He sunk in Greece ...
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